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Processors designed for data center servers, such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC lines, distinguished by core counts, pricing and platform specs.
Intel said Xeon Diamond Rapids will be the last generation to support SGX, Tom's Hardware reported. Existing SGX platforms stay supported into the early 2030s, so an enclave team's nearer deadline is its first Xeon refresh after Diamond Rapids.
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AMD's EPYC Verano AI host CPU will use a new SB1 socket, smaller than SP7 and SP8, according to a listing at cooler maker Dynatron. Verano gets its own board, while the cooler listed for it copies an SP7 part's specs and leaves the power budget unknown.
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AMD's Zen 6 EPYC price list, obtained by StorageReview, runs from $700 for 8 cores to $14,904 for the 256-core EPYC 9996. Refresh budgets now have a fixed CPU line, while memory, boards and power for the larger SP7 socket still need their own estimate.
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AMD passed $1 trillion on Monday and Arm gained 17.16% as investors bet Meta's Muse agent will need far more server processors. The published estimates of how much CPU an agent needs span a tenfold range.
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The 20 percent per-core margin over Nvidia's Vera is the same claim AMD made in July. The detail now published behind it rests on a 256-core part down-cored to 96, a 600W budget, and two different major GCC releases.
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Chief financial officer Jean Hu put high-performance computing at $3 trillion by 2030, up from about $2 trillion in July, with the server-CPU slice alone going from roughly $60 billion to roughly $220 billion.
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Intel's Hot Chips disclosure gives capacity and licensing planners real numbers for 2027, but leaves out the one figure that would let anyone model per-core performance.
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